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The Richmond Symphony Chorus, founded in 1971, gave its first performance under the direction of Robert Shaw; its directors have been James Erb (1971-2007), Erin R. Freeman (2007-2022), and Richard W. Robbins (2024-present). [3] The Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program includes four ensembles of elementary to secondary school students.
The Animals – "Good Times", "San Franciscan Nights" Keith West – "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera" Frankie Vaughan – "There Must Be a Way" The Herd – "From the Underworld" The Barron Knights – "Here Come the Bees" The Seekers – "When Will the Good Apples Fall" Stevie Wonder – "I'm Wondering" The Foundations – "Baby Now That I've ...
A pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular music (generally traditional pop) and show tunes as well as well-known classical works. Pops orchestras are generally organized in large cities and are distinct from the more " highbrow " symphony or philharmonic orchestras which also may exist in the same city.
“Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony,” a multi-media concert experience designed to pair the country-pop superstar’s song catalog with local orchestras, has announced performances ...
Thomas Penn Newsom (February 25, 1929 – April 28, 2007) was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for which he later became assistant director. Newsom was frequently the band's substitute director, whenever music director Doc Severinsen was away from the show or filling in for announcer Ed McMahon .
"Love Me Tonight" is a song performed by Tom Jones. It peaked at #2 on the adult contemporary chart, #9 on the UK Singles Chart, and #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of July 19, 1969. [1] [2] The song was arranged by Johnnie Spence and produced by Peter Sullivan. [3] The song ranked #94 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1969. [4]
The arrangement requires temple blocks to be used as the sound of the clock that is heard throughout, except for a brief section in the middle. The piece is in 4 4 time; the opening establishes a perfectly regular "tick-tock" accompaniment, beginning with a roll off the orchestra's staccato strike of an A chord, creating an expectation that it will continue.
A Trumpeter's Lullaby is a short composition for solo trumpet and orchestra, written by American composer Leroy Anderson in 1949. The two and a half minute piece was premiered on May 9, 1950, by the Boston Pops Orchestra with Arthur Fiedler conducting and French-born American Roger Voisin as trumpet soloist. [1]